Now that this Facebook video debacle has finally put the lie to the idea that video is a better way to communicate, can we PLEASE stop making video-only tutorials for COMMAND-LINE PROGRAMS AND TEXT BASED LANGUAGES

I AM LITERALLY BEGGING YOU

You, an obnoxious genius: “Hey, it’s me, YouFace McVideopants, with the only explanation available online for this obscure feature of a poorly-documented language!”

Me, a fundamentally broken human: “Welp, guess my only option is to disassemble the compiler.”

Just. Copy. Text.

Like... I have literally browsed Japanese and Russian forums, languages I barely speak or read, to get info instead of sitting through a 10-min video. And when YouTube inevitably collapses, all that video will be gone. FOREVER. The forums will still be on

Your computing ancestors would beat you senseless with an acoustic coupler if they knew you were making video files larger than their entire file servers’ combined drive space just to convey the information present in a few kilobytes of text.

Kibibytes, whatever.